Ben Harper – HuffPost 5.16.11

Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists?

Ben Harper: The advice I have for new artists is this–write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it. You’ve got to have the discipline to rehearse the songs–get them down–and if you build it, they will come. If there is a band that I’m hearing is hot and they’re playing around live, I will go–you go.